Oh and I forgot to say that this is a 200 A-Spec set-up for the Pan European race series (as have all the Esprit set-ups I've posted on S tyres).

Also, the lap times I've noted for these recent set-ups are all 'race laps' rather than Hot Laps (I prefer to set cars up this way these days as the lack of tyre wear in Free Run can be misleading as to car balance).

Many thanks to Sir Sukerkin for the smorgasbord of Esprit setups. I've actually been testing all of them, but still shopping for that perfect used SE. Set up with something similar to your #6834 I scored 200 at Opera, failed badly at Sarthe and narrowly at the others. Then for a refreshing break I reacquainted myself with the Europa and Turbo HC, taking stock of their family quirks. It seems the backbone frame goes all the way back to the Elan and the infamous Lotus 40 - "the Lotus 30 with 10 more mistakes"! I knew winning with these Loti would take time and be more demanding than some others, e.g., the BMW M3 GTR. But heck, if it were easy, everybody would be doing it, and we've all the time in the (virtual) world.

You're more than welcome, good sir :tup:.

I shall be working on a set-up for the HC tonight and then maybe a high power, R tyre, incarnation of the 350 over the week-end .

I haven't had this much fun with the game for ages, so thanks for inspiring me to get to work with the spanners again {I was even going through my old papers on damper technology the other night to see if my memory had let slip a way to limit high speed entry understeer without getting too much exit oversteer (a famous 'cake and eat it' scenario }.

EDIT: Ah, we're on at the same time! Good evening, Dotini. Glad to hear of your success at the 'Ring - whoo-hoo! From one aging hippy to another, there's nothing quite like winning a race on a classic track in one of the older classics is there (allbeit it that the 350 is a re-imagining of an older car) ?

The 2J is a car I've never looked at before I don't think. It should be a very interesting time to try and sort her out for the high end series. Perhaps I'll get chance to spanner her on Sunday. I'll let you know what I find out.

Those are indeed the 'classic' damper adjustments for the conditions you stated (if you haven't read it already then I suggest a visit to Neil Robert's articles on damper tuning, they're simple enough to easily apply to GT but cover all the bases) :tup:.

What I was after tho' was how to get a twitchy MR car to be stable under braking into a corner without understeering and be stable on the throttle out of a corner without understeering off the course or stepping the back end out.

That's why suspension tuning is a Black Art rather than a science .

I've spent all night trying to come up with an alternative solution to the Esprit HC's handling quirks in the hope of providing an illustration of 'multiple ways to skin a cat' but, so far, nothing is better than the solution I've already come up with (or at least nothing that gives me both handling and balanced tyre life).

Greetings, Sukerkin. Thought you'd enjoy knowing that this setup for the Esprit has been one of the 'most viewed' setups on GTVault, so obviously a lot of folks besides myself have benefitted from your insights, and I bet there are a lot of happier Lotus drivers out there due to your efforts.

As regards the 2J, I have finally managed to win all the GTWC races (for 200 pts each) with it barring Motegi and Sarthe, where I was obliged to use the 787B, and Grand Valley which I took with the Nissan GT-R Concept LM just for a wildly different flavor. Please see my setup #6786 for the 2J setup notes, if interested. The 2J is happiest at 90 degree corners, but still a handfull at some circuits, and awaits the ultimate setup.